Patents by Inventor Stephen J. Hussell

Stephen J. Hussell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for heating a fluid stream
    Patent number: 4871308
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for heating fluids wherein separate gas streams of natural gas and air are compressed to a preselected pressure, passed to an injection and mixing zone for thorough mixing including expansion of one gas and compression of the other, passed to a combustion chamber for burning with the combustion products being further contracted and passed to a heat exchanger conduit where such combustion products are progressively further contracted as they are brought into heat exchange with the fluid to be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignees: Combustion Concepts Inc., Williamson Company
    Inventors: John P. Norton, Steven Schneider, William D. Wilder, Stephen J. Hussell